in the US. Figure 3.5 depicts the publications by firms in nanotechnology ... to a small number of firms attracting large number of awards, popularly known as SBIR ... Cumulative Number of Firms with Publications Cumulative Number of Firms with Patents Cumulative Number of Firms with SBIR awards Cumulative Number of Firms with VC funding

However, this situation has also been undergoing a major change in Japan over the past few years. Although the number of cases is still small, nanotech ventures spun ... Figure 5. Nanotech Venture Start-Ups by Business Creation Format (Source of Core Technology) United States Spin-offs from national research institutes Japan Technology transfers from national research institutes Spin-offs from foreign ... by setting up a venture firm through a spin-off from the existing company. The Role

*” showed the United States as a global leader in that indicator of output (Figure 2-3). This analysis also showed that, although the number of U.S. nanotechnology-related ... An analysis of the number of peer-reviewed scientific papers in the Web ...U.S. China Japan Germany France South Korea Russia U.K. India Others

have lunched significant nanotech initiatives through their own venture capital funds. Some ... to nanotech. While initial interest has been greatest among the seed stage funders, many ... in nanotechnology, in the past two years some VC firms have been cautious to invest in specific

USA Japan EU CogSci-ICT Biotech-ICT Nanotech-ICT Material SciencesICT ... in terms of number of publications in the field of Material Sciences-ICT. - Concerning the scientific impact the USA is the best performer. As the impact scores of Europe and Japan ... great variations across the domains. In the domain of CogSci-ICT, the total number

United States percentage of firms with Asian research and development collaborations by country for 2011 ... Table
Percent of U.S. Firms with
Asian R&amp;D Collaborations ... X.X%
U.S. X.X%
Japan X.X%
Source: Battelle, R&amp;D Magazine
Note: Table made from bar graph.
Percent of U.S. Firms

Cumulative Nanotech (as a Subset of Biotech) Patents Issued All Universities, 1995-2004 Number of Patents Issued Source: ipIQ ... Innovation Pipeline: Biotech Patents Issued in the United States Mind-to-Market Nanotech Patent Findings Nanotechnology can be applied to many different industries, but we focus only on its relevance to biotechnology. On a cumulative basis, nanotech ...united states

CH FIGURE 10: VENTURE CAPITAL INVESMENT IN NANOTECH IS LIMITED AND CONCENTRATED $MM VC Funding, # of deals $ Millions Number of Deals Source: Small Times and the MoneyTree Survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers, Thomson Venture Economics ... Highlighting this trend, almost all of the venture capital that went to nanotech companies in the first quarter of 2005 was placed into 4 companies, NanoTex ($33 MM), Nanomix ($17 MM), Nantero ($17 MM), and NanoOpto ($12MM). While leading ...united states